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Famous Quotes

"Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate."

John Podhoretz on Government

More quotes about Government

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."

John Podhoretz on Thomas Jefferson

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

John Podhoretz on Winston Churchill

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

John Podhoretz on Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

John Podhoretz on George Washington

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."

John Podhoretz on Thomas Paine

More quotes by John Podhoretz

"Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else."

"Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will."

"Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change."

"All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth."

"It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job."